Brushing-machine



S. RADIMAK.

BRusHmG MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 13 1919. 7 1,352,527, PatentedSept. 14, 1920.

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S. RADIMAK.

BRUSHING MACHINL APPLICATION FlLED NOV. I3. 1919.

1,352,527, Patented Sept. 14,1920.

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STEVEN RADIMAK, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

a BRUSHING-MACHINE.

- s ecification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept, 14, 1920,

Application filed November 13, 1919. Serial No. 337,810.

ful Improvements in Brushing-Machines,

of which the following is a specification. 1

This invention relates to machines for brushing and cleaning clothes and shoeswhile the articles of apparel are on the person of the wearer.

The object of this invention is the provision of an electrically driven machine which can easily be manipulated manually over the person and which brushes clothes, shoes and other articles of wearing apparel quickly, thoroughly and efliciently.

To attain this and other objects, I employ the mechanism shown in its preferred form in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view and partial section of my improved mechanism showing two of the brushes and the means for driving them.

7 Fig. 2 is a side view of one end thereof.

Fig. 3 is a similar view of the other end thereof.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged section showing the means used for disconnecting the parts of the brush shaft as it appears in the disconnected position, and Fig. 5 is a similar view of the same showing the operative position of the parts.

In the practical embodiment of my invention, the frames 1, 2, and 3 support the va-' rious shafts and rotating parts and are held together by suitable bolts as 13. Handles 4 suitably attached to outside frames 1 and 3 are provided for the manual manipulation of my improved mechanism. Cylindrical brushes as 5 and 6 made of suitable material such as stiff bristles of various degrees of coarseness are removably mounted at adjacent corners of the machine and are adapted for rotation therein. A third brush 7 made up of layers of felt or cloth and made preferably in the form approximating a hyperboloid of revolution for the purpose of more readily conforming to the shape of the wearer when applied thereto for polishing the shoes on the rotation of the brush, is removably mounted at a third corner of the machine, while an idler cylinder 8 on shaft 9 is mounted at the fourth corner.

For rotating the brushes 5, 6 and 7, a source of power is provided, such as electric motor 10 supportedfrom frames 2 and 3 by angle 11 and motor casing 12 attached to The motor shaft 1 1 which is said angle. the ma n shaft of my mechanism, is suitably journaled in frame 2, preferably by means I of a ball bearing as15 and has mounted at the end thereof, main gear 16.' Intermediate gears 17 mounted on studs 18 serve to transmit the power to the various brushes. 'Said studs 18 ending in knobs 19, are supported in frames 1 and 2, and are of sufficient length to enable said studs to be shifted lon itudinally by pushing or pulling said kno s. The enlarged portions 20 of studs 18 are made of the proper length to insure shifting of gears 17 between predetermined limits. Brush gears 21 on shaft 22 which are ]OIlII1LlGCl in frames 1 and 2, and which connect to removable shafts 23, receive power from gears 17 and cause the brushes to rotate.

Brush'shaft 23 is made smaller at one end, while shaft 22 is made hollow at the end adjacent thereto so that the shafts may be joined together as shown in Fig. 1, the pin '24 looking the shafts so that they rotate together as a unit, but allow the longitudi nal separation of said shafts.

For the removal of brushes 5, 6 and 7, for repair or replacement, bearing 26 for brush shaft 23 is made movable longitudinally of said shaft for separating said bearing therefrom. (Figs. 4 and 5) Bearing support 25 has rectangular slot 29 cut therein to fit'the rectangular end of bearing 26. Pin 27 of ing 26 from shaft 23, and spring 30 drops into depression 31 of frame 3. Shoulder 33 of bearing 26 limits the movement of said bearing away from shaft 23 and prevents said hearing from falling out of frame 3.

Scrapers 34, preferably of sheet metal, are hinged to frames 2 and 3 by pivots 35, and are arranged to be thrown into contact with the various brushes by levers 36 attached to said pivots. To clean the brushes, the levers 36 are thrown into the position shown in Fig. 3, and the current is turned on whereby the brushes rotating against the scrapers are sufficiently agitated to than charge the dust and other foreign matters held therein.

The operation of my improved mechanism is as follows:

Before the current is turned on, starting motor 10, the proper one of knobs 1%) is. pulled out, thereby throwing the desired intermediate gear 17 into engagement with the gear 21 of the brush it is desired to rotate therethrough, whereby the brush is started revolving.

The machine is grasped by the handles t and run over the clothes of the wearer thereby thoroughly cleaning them. To change brushes, the proper one of knobs 19 is pushed in, and the desired one pulled out, whereby the gears 19 are shifted. To remove any of the brushes, support 25 is pushed down, drawing pin 27 along groove 28, whereby bearing 26 is pulled away from shaft 23, allowing said shaft 23 to be slipped out from the end of shaft 22. The brush is again inserted by reversing the operation.

It is obvious that all of the brushes may be rotated at the same time, or they may be operated one at a time, since they are independent of each other, and have individual driving mechanisms.

lVhat I claim is:

1. In a brushing machine, a pair of frames, at s ries of brushes, shafts near some of the corners of said frames on which said brushes are removably mounted, a main shaft mounted between said frames near the center thereof, a main gear on said main shaft, a gear on each of said brush shafts, and means for separately operatively connecting said main gear to any of said brush gears for revolving said brushes separately and for revolving them together.

2. In a brushing machine, a pair of substantially square frames, a series of revoluble shafts arranged near some of the corners of said frames, brushes on said shafts,

a main gear, a brush gear on each of said shafts, and a slidable intermediate gear for each of said brushes for operatively connecting any of the brush gears with said main gear.

3. In a brushing machine, a pair of frames, a series of revoluble brushes each independently mounted in said frames, means for separately revolving any of said brushes, and means for removing each of said brushes from the machine independently of the others of said brushes, said means comprising a shaft on which a brush is mounted, a bearing movable lengthwise of said shaft permanently mounted in one of said frames near one end of said shaft, 0. pin on said bearing means having a cam opening therein engaging said pin for moving said bearing, and a detachable slip joint at the other end of said shaft.

4. In a brushing machine, frames, handles suitably attached to said frames for the manual manipulation of said machine, a series of revoluble brushes, means for revolving said brushes, and means for removing ca. h of said brushes from said machine comprising a shaft on which a brush is mounted, a bearing movable lengthwise of said shaft at one end of said shaft, a support on one of said frames for said bearing having a cam groove therein movable trans versely of said shaft for separating said hearing from said shaft, and a partly hollow shaft permanently revolubly mounted in the other of said frames, the other end of said brush shaft being adapted for detachable connection with said vpartly hollow shaft.

.5. In a brushing machine, a series of revolublc brushes, shafts on which said brushes are mounted, means for revolving.

said brushes independently, means for detachably securing said brushes in said machine, and means for cleaning said brushes during the revolution thereof.

6. In a brushing machine, a pair of sub stantially square frames, brushes revolubly mounted at some of the corners of said frames, and means adapted to be operatively connected to and disconnected from said brushes for revolving any of said brushes separately, for revolving any number of said brushes together and for revolving all of said brushes together, at will.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature this 26th day of March, 1920.

STEVEN woman. 

